Students' perspective towards e-assessment in Forensic Medicine

Abstract

The use of PowerPoint (PPT) for teaching has been widely used all over the world. Despite a drastic change in teaching-learning  techniques in medical education, the majority of medical colleges still follow the traditional methods of practical examination. Due to  a sudden increase in the number of students in a batch, the teachers find a difficulty in evaluating the students with traditional  methods of practical examinations. Hence, this study was undertaken to analyze the effectiveness of the use of digital techniques for  assessment of practical examination during spotting. During this study, we observed that there are many advantages associated with  the use of e-assessment in the assessment of practical examinations, especially when we are going to evaluate a batch of students  having 150-250 numbers. This article describes the rationale of the use of e-assessment in the practical assessment and provides an  overview of its advantages. It also reviews the advantages and disadvantages associated with use of e-assessment of practical  examination and proposes some guidelines and strategies that need be considerd when it is applied.